Soybean variety ELL0254

Abstract

The soybean variety ELL0254 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and soybean lint as well as to hybrid soybean plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ELL0254 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ELL0254 and to plants of ELL0254 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ELL0254.

That which is claimed: 
     
       1. A seed of soybean variety ELL0254, representative sample seed of said variety is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-122935. 
     
     
       2. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of  claim 1 . 
     
     
       3. A tissue culture produced from protoplasts or cells from the plant of  claim 2 , wherein said cells or protoplasts are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaf, pollen, ovule, embryo, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristematic cell, root, root tip, pistil, anther, flower, seed, shoot, stem, pod and petiole. 
     
     
       4. A soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture of  claim 3 , wherein said soybean plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
     
     
       5. A method for producing a soybean seed, comprising crossing two soybean plants and harvesting the resultant soybean seed, wherein at least one soybean plant is the soybean plant of  claim 2 . 
     
     
       6. An F1 soybean seed produced by the method of  claim 5 . 
     
     
       7. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing said seed of  claim 6 . 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 5 , wherein at least one of said soybean plants further comprises at least one transgene. 
     
     
       9. A method of producing an herbicide resistant soybean plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene conferring herbicide resistance into the plant of  claim 2 . 
     
     
       10. A herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of  claim 9 , wherein the gene confers resistance to a herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, cyclohexone, cyclohexanedione, triazine, benzonitrile, an N-(tetrazol-4-yl)- or N-(triazol-3-yl)arylcarboxamide, an N-(1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)benzamide, tembotrione, sulcotrione, topramezone, bicyclopyrone, tefuryltrione, isoxaflutole, pyrasulfotole, and mesotrione, wherein said plant otherwise retains all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
     
     
       11. A method of producing a pest or insect resistant soybean plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene conferring pest or insect resistance into the soybean plant of  claim 2 . 
     
     
       12. A pest or insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of  claim 11 , wherein said plant otherwise retains all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
     
     
       13. The soybean plant of  claim 12 , wherein the gene encodes a  Bacillus thuringiensis  (Bt) endotoxin. 
     
     
       14. A method of producing a disease resistant soybean plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene which confers disease resistance into the soybean plant of  claim 2 . 
     
     
       15. A disease resistant soybean plant produced by the method of  claim 14 , wherein said plant otherwise retains all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
     
     
       16. A method of producing a soybean plant with modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism, wherein the method comprises introducing a gene encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, α-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or encoding an antisense gene of stearyl-ACP desaturase into the soybean plant of  claim 2 . 
     
     
       17. A soybean plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of  claim 16 , wherein said plant otherwise retains all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
     
     
       18. A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean variety ELL0254, wherein the method comprises:
 (a) crossing a ELL0254 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-122935, with a plant of another soybean variety that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified seed yield, modified oil percent, modified protein percent, modified lodging resistance, modified shattering, modified iron-deficiency chlorosis and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease; 
 (b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants; 
 (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the ELL0254 plant to produce backcross progeny plants; 
 (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254; and 
 (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) two or more times in succession to produce selected third or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
 
     
     
       19. A method of producing a commodity plant product, comprising obtaining the plant of  claim 2 , or a part thereof, wherein the commodity plant product is protein concentrate, protein isolate, soybean hulls, meal, flour, or oil and producing said commodity plant product therefrom. 
     
     
       20. A plant, or a part thereof, obtained by vegetative reproduction from the plant, or a part thereof, of  claim 2 , said plant, or a part thereof, comprising all the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254. 
     
     
       21. A plant, or a part thereof, obtained by vegetative reproduction from the plant, or a part thereof, of  claim 7 , said plant, or a part thereof, comprising all the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety ELL0254.